Filmfestivals.com + fest21.com merger

Enjoy here the best of both worlds: Portal with Film & Fest News and Social network for the festival community.

Since 1995 we connect films to festivals and document the world of festivals worldwide.We offer the most comprehensive festival directory of 6 000 festivals, browse festival blogs, film blogs...and promote yourself for free.

For all visitors
All visitors are welcome to discover, browse, watch videos, vote, and comment... To be part of the community though, you need to register to get your own videoblog, publish your posts, images, videos, book reviews, links, tags... Your videoblog is customizable and accessible via urls like myblog.fest21.com. Join us.

Registration
To register, enter a login name, a valid email, choose your password, your domain name, your blog category and add a description who will appear at the top of your videoblog. If you loose your password, request a new one here.

Personalize my Blog

To go to your account and personalize your blog, click on My Blog on the left column.

You can also choose the Domain Name of your videoblog used to access it directly. For example, if you enter alice, your blog will be accessible via the url alice.fest21.com. Like these pages on fest21 are accessible via: fest21.fest21.com.

In the description field, you can add picture like a banner of your festival or of your film. (for instance copy paste the festival logo on your website or facebook page.To add images use the process as described above to add an image in the "blog entry" section.

Below, you can upload a picture to have it displayed when you are connected, on your blog's description...

Save the settings by pressing Submit at the bottom of the page.

Next to your "account settings" option, click on the "User info" tabs. Fill the fields to allow users to look at your profile. Information will be displayed at the top of the right column of your blog. In "about this blog" field, you can add pictures and link. For instance, you can describe your film, your festival, or tell more about you.

Create content

To Add content, click on the left column on "create content" and then the type of content you wish to create. Most often a blog entry will be created, which is also called a personal blog entry or a post.

- Optional: select the relevent channels for this post. For example "Ambiance" and the post will be displayed on your blog and on the selected channel(s).

- Optional: provide tags to help classify and find this post. For example, "film festival usa" and the post will be listed when visitors select those words.

- Enter the body and the text of the post.

The text will appear as you type it, with lines and paragraph breaks automatically done. To use bold or italics, select the text and use the bottons above this input box. The post accepts also a limited set of html code like links or images... Links can easily added by using the button with a chain. Enter the complete url including http://. .

Create a blog entry: add an image
Select an existing image or add a new one

Add a new image:

Click on the iamge button on top of the text box. (next to flash symbol). A pop-up window will open. Click on "upload" on top left of screen

On the next window (see below), provide a Title for that image. You can also optionally include it in a channel, an image gallery, add tags and a description. To upload the image, use the "Browse" option to select the image on your disk. Press Submit bellow.

then browse your computer to upload from your image. insert and save.

or add the url of an image from the web

The image will be inserted in the text. You can move the image. You can also use the formatting buttons like move to right, center, move left or justify. Save your post to check.

Select the image you need from the web, make sure you got rights for that, right click on the image and select properties, copy url

The Url have to finish by .jpg, .bmp or .gif Once select, paste this url in your blog post by clicking on the tree button on top of the text box and by filling the "image url" field with the image url.

If you have already uploaded an image on your account, you can add it any time (your poster, logo) on your blog posts. You just have to click on the image symbol a button on top of the text box, select the pre-existing image from the list on the right and click on insert.

Create a blog entry: add a video

If you have a pre existing video on Youtube or Dailymotion, you can easily import it in your blog entry. You just have to paste the embed code of your video, in your post.

On youtube, you can copy the embed code at the right of the video:

To paste this code on Fest21, you have first to "disable rich text" at the bottom of the body field of your blog entry.

Once done, paste embed code and click on submit. In blog entry, you can have pictures, video and text. By example, take a look at this post.

Step 1: browse your disk, choose the video to upload. Actually Max file size: 50 MB (may vary according to account types)
Step2: input the title, tags, description... and just submit. Your video will be ready shortly after upload is done. Be informed that upload can take a long (sometime very long) time depending on film size and connection speed.

Complete information : title, tag, description and select on your browser the audio file that you want to share. The files are limited to 8 MB.

When you have finished, just click on « Submit ».

Edit your content

To edit your content, to the right column click on "My Blog" and select your blog post.

After click on edit, to save your change click on "submit".

RSS

All of your post generate RSS feed. If you want to add your RSS feeds or those from other members on other sites, netvibes, myYahoo... just go to your video blog and click on the « XML » button on top and copy the link. Then you can choose your application to read the rss feed.

You also have on the left column of the home page, a « RSS feeds » option. There, you can see and add the more recent rss feed, the general rss feed for posts, audio or video....

If you want to add someone on your « buddies list », go to his video blog, and on his profile (top right column) select « add me to your buddies ». If the members is on the left column "active members" you just have to click on the +.

To see the most recent post of your friends, go to My Buddylist and after click on the tabs "recent post".

Forum

To participate or read subject on the forum, click on Forum on the left column.To create a new subject, click on « Post new forum topic » and complete the information.

Comments (20)

There used to be a link on Filmfestival.com that would allow you to search for international film festivals based on a month of the year. Anyone knows what happened to it or if there is a new link for it? You can still find them by searching each country individualy. It takes toomuch time this way. can anyone help please?

This is certainly a great piece of information. I do appreciate the pain taken in formulating this piece of “Help” tutorial which includes everything from creating a blog entry to promoting it. Everything has been illustrated so well with the help of images and screen shots. I also had some problems with the information uploaded regarding my movie to see it on my LCD HDTV . I could clear my doubt over here. French version is also quiet useful for many. Thanks a lot.

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